Word: bar
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned his attention to literature. When in college he was an editor of the Advocate and wrote the Pudding poem and his class ode. In 1887 he travelled extensively in Ireland, and on his return published a book, "In Castle...
...shot but had better success in the novice high jump, Richardson Dn. taking second place with a jump of 5 ft. 4 1-2 in, with Wheelwright '94, third at 5 3 1-2 in. The event was won by a Cambridge man who cleared the bar...
...pole vault was the only event on the programme which was not finished. The bar was at 9 ft. 6 1-2 inches when the contest was postponed until Monday...
...last of the winter meetings and second ladies' day will be March 26. The open events are tumbling, fence vault and running high jump (3 in. limit). The closed events are contests in fencing, broadsword, club swinging and horizontal bar. The open events are open to members of the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association and to several of the better known Boston and New York clubs by invitation...
...entertainment for the benefit of the Amherst Athletic Association will be given about Feb. nineteenth in Pratt Gymnasium. It will consist of exhibitions in floor-tumbling, sparring, horizontal bar performing, and other indoor contests by professional and amateur gymnasts...